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Researchers prevent mice from developing diabetes - domain
A Swedish research group headed at Karolinska Institutet has been able to prevent onset of Type 1 diabetes in mice that are genetically susceptible to the disease. Through injection of specifically prepared cells, the researchers managed to stop the ongoing destruction of insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells in mice just prior to clinical debut of diabetes. Type [...]
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For street food lovers: Typhoid prevention and symptoms
Monsoon is one season when street food should be off limits and all for good reason. A common disease that rapidly spreads through food, typhoid usually affects those who frequently indulge in street food. If chaats and pakodas from your office street vendor are your favourite evening snacks, then you need to be aware of [...]
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Homeopathy, fish to take on encephalitis in UP?
Even as a worried Uttar Pradesh government is combating the outbreak of encephalitis that has claimed 117 lives in the last one month in the eastern part of the state, the Gorakhpur administration is toying with homeopathy and fish to take on the killer disease. According to highly-placed sources, a ‘hate-ke’ (different) proposal came from [...]
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Diabetes could damage your hearing too
Hearing assessment may soon become a part of diabetes evaluation It is a known fact that people with diabetes are counselled to take care of their feet and consult their eye specialist periodically. But with several studies indicating a link between diabetes and hearing loss, doctors say hearing assessment may soon become a part of [...]
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Odhisa raises a stink on latrines, Defence Research and …
DHAMRA(ODHISA): If Jairam Ramesh, Union minister of rural development, drinking water and sanitation is to be believed, Odhisa has an extremely poor track record so far as sanitation is concerned. According to him, of the nearly 6,300 Gram Panchayats in the state, there are merely 230 where every household has a latrine. Odhisa features in [...]
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Psoriasis patients more prone to diabetes
Psoriasis is an independent risk for Type 2 diabetes, with the greatest risk seen in patients with severe form of the common inflammatory skin disease, according to a new study. Researchers with the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania estimated that an additional 115,500 people will develop diabetes each year due to [...]
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Plan for potable water in 15 encephalitis-hit districts
SITAMARHI: The Union rural development ministry has identified 60 districts in five states, including 15 in Bihar, hit by Japanese Encephalitis (JE) or Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES). Hundreds of children die due to the disease in these states every year. The medical experts have suggested that this disease is largely because of unhealthy drinking water [...]
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Insulin ‘puts people with diabetes heart disease risk’ myth debunked
Washington, June 17 (ANI): Long-term insulin use does not harm people with diabetes or pre-diabetes or put them at risk of heart attacks, strokes or cancer, a new study has claimed. According to Dr. Hertzel Gerstein, principal investigator of the study from McMaster University, this is contrary to concerns that long-term use of insulin may [...]
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Healthy diet, exercise essential to renal care
CEBU CITY, June 14 (PIA) — Here are five basic tips to avoid kidney disease, the ninth leading cause of death among Filipinos today. Dr. John Li, private nephrologist of Chong Hua Hospital, said stressed lifestyle modification is essential in preventing renal disease enumerating five tips for strict adherence. The first step cited by Li [...]
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High-fat diets can up your risk of bowel disorders: study
Diets rich in saturated fat, found in processed foods, confectionery and sweets, could increase your risk of developing inflammatory bowel disease and other immune disorders, a new study has claimed. Researchers at the University of Chicago found that high-fat diet changes the way food was digested and causes a “boom in bad bacteria” responsible for [...]
